CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: HENRY E. McCULLOCH - Gonzales County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

HENRY E. McCULLOCH.

Henry E. McCulloch, of Seguin, was born in Rutherford county, Tenn., Dec., 
6, 1816. He came to Texas in the fall of 1837 and was for several years 
assessor and then sheriff of Gonzales county. In 1853 he served in the House 
of Representatives from Guadalupe county, and in 1855 was elected to the 
Texas Senate, in which he served four years. In the days of the Republic of 
Texas he participated in the struggles of Texas against Mexicans and 
Indians. He was one of Caldwell's scouts, and was in the battle of Plum 
Creek against the Comanches, and with his brother, Gen. Ben McCulloch, and 
others in the fights against the Wacos and Comanches. While first lieutenant 
in Hay's Texas Rangers he was in the battles of Salado and the Hondo, and in 
the Somerville expedition against Mexico in 1842-43. He commanded a company 
of Texas Rangers, under the United States Government, in the.Mexican War 
from June 8, 1846 to December 8, 1848. He was next captain of Rangers under 
Gen. Brooke in 1850-51 and was mustered out of service by Captain James 
Longstreet at Fort Martin Scott in Nov., 1851. In 1859 President Buchanan 
appointed him United States Marshal for the Eastern district of Texas and he 
was holding this position when the war came. He was commissioned colonel in 
the Confederate army, and in 1862 was promoted brigadier-general. He was in 
command at the battles of Perkin's Landing and Millicen's Bend, and several 
other engagements. He was a gallant soldier and always in the thick of the 
fight. Gen. McCulloch married in Gonzales county, August 20, 1840, Miss Jane 
Ashby of the well known Kentucky family. The seven children who survive them 
reside in Texas.